Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 May 2002 21:34:23 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre9 |
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On Wed, 29 May 2002, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2002-05-28T19:06:42, > Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> said: > > Good morning Marcelo, could you please also consider switching to the somewhat > more dense format used by Linus recently? It makes the changelogs a lot more > readable.
I guess I'll use Matthias changelog.pl. Havent tested it yet, though.
> As a further comment: > > > <greg@kroah.com> (02/05/03 1.408) > > USB io_edgeport driver > > > > <davem@nuts.ninka.net> (02/05/06 1.383.11.22) > > soft-fp fix: > > > > <colin@gibbs.dhs.org> (02/05/07 1.383.11.23) > > copy_mm fix: > > and alike aren't actually very useful one-line summaries of the patch in > question to a "casual" reader, sorry.
I got them through BK pull: I can't change comments of those patches.
David, Greg, and others, please, more readable changelogs :)
> In the first case, I can guess that probably, it is a new driver added; or > maybe it is just an update to an existing one? In the later two, what is > fixed? How does it affect my own code, or my running system? > > The good work by all contributors not withstanding, it would be very nice if > they could make the summary slightly more useful before sending a patch to > Marcelo, for which I would like to thank everyone in advance ;-)
I have to change a patch's changelog (which is the message body which people send me in case of a GNU patch) pretty often to make it more readable.
I just can't change all of them.
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